This story was printed in the Post this morning, Feb. 28. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Starbucks’ plan to close 150 “underperforming” stores nationwide this year has struck […]
UPDATE: This morning (Feb. 28), Assistant Superintendent Lorena Morales-Ellis, who was picked by the board to replace Superintendent Gloria Hernandez-Goff during her suspension, turned down the job, forcing the board […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto school district says its current enrollment doesn’t call for a new middle school or high school anytime soon — but […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A proposal many criticized as “rent control” was rejected by Menlo Park City Council last night (Feb. 26) in favor of an ordinance […]
This story first appeared in the Post on Tuesday, Feb. 26. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A 16-year-old boy accused of sexually assaulting, then repeatedly harassing his teammate […]
Dr. Thomas Forrest, 88, son of physicians Fred and Susanne Forrest, died peacefully, surrounded by family, on February 2, 2019. Tom was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1930. His family […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Many elected officials in San Mateo County plan to go to Monterey on the weekend of April 5-7 for their annual Progress Seminar, […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Mountain View police are searching for a man who brutally attacked a Massachusetts woman on the Stevens Creek Trail last night (Feb. […]
Menlo Park police said today (Feb. 26) that they arrested a South San Francisco man in connection with a string of auto burglaries and vandalism incidents that took place Saturday […]
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post correspondent Bay Area voters face a steady stream of tax increases proposed each election by cities, counties and school districts. For the most part, elected […]
When you get your car fixed at Menlo Atherton Auto Repair, you’re bringing your vehicle to a trusted, longtime local shop that’s seen three generation of family work there. Now […]
You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant – especially if what you want is something seasonal, natural and delicious. With new chef Carlos Olvera now leading the kitchen, […]
For delicious, authentic Italian food, go to 888 Ristorante Italiano in downtown San Carlos. The restaurant, which is now celebrating its 10th year, offers up a menu of classic Italian […]
Today’s cannabis consumers are increasingly being revealed as active, athletic folks who are focused on using the plant for its wellness applications. The challenge is to find the right product […]
By the Daily Post staff A teenage Taco Bell customer had his phone taken by a guy in a car who had just gone through the drive-thru at the restaurant […]
By the Daily Post staff A 35-year-old East Palo Alto man was arrested today (Feb. 25) on suspicion of sexually assaulting a girl under 10, authorities said. San Mateo County […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A person walking home near downtown Los Altos was robbed at gunpoint by two people in a car, police said today (Feb. 25). […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto police arrested a Central Valley woman who was allegedly caught performing sex acts on her boyfriend in a patient room […]
By the Daily Post staff David William Pruitt, 38, a Boise, Idaho resident, was arrested on suspicion of raping a co-worker in San Carlos, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A youth counselor from Mountain View who had sexual relationships with two girls aged 13 and 14 was sentenced to eight years in […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The San Carlos City Council on Monday (Feb. 25) will consider whether Holly Street ought to become two lanes again or make the […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A bizarre situation at Los Altos City Council has pitted Councilwoman Jeannie Bruins’ asthma against the cigarette habit of one of her political […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The only type of insect that carries a disease known to kill citrus trees has been found in Redwood City and Foster City, […]
From staff and wire reports San Mateo County has joined more than 1,300 cities, counties and groups in suing opi- oid prescription drug makers for allegedly fueling the nation’s opioid […]
Santa Clara County will be able to move forward with its purchase of two hospitals after a judge on Friday (Feb. 22) dismissed the state attorney general’s second attempt to […]
San Mateo Congresswoman Jackie Speier is trying to pressure Google and Apple into removing a restrictive Saudi Arabian phone app that allows men to track women and migrant workers. Speier […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Controversy is beginning to brew over a proposal to build sidewalks along Sharon Road in Menlo Park leading to La Entrada Middle School. […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto Congresswoman Anna Eshoo appears to have flipped her position on big telecommunications mergers, giving a glowing endorsement of a plan to […]
By the Daily Post staff Two mid-Peninsula-based nonprofits that help people with developmental disabilities, Gatepath and Abilities United, have begun merger talks to reduce administrative costs. “This decision is designed […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Gov. Gavin Newsom’s visit to Silicon Valley yesterday ended with a spontaneous trip to Palo Alto High School, where he spent two hours […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A former Palo Alto elementary school teacher was sentenced today (Feb. 21) to 15 years in state prison for molesting his ex-girlfriend’s daughter. […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A familiar face has been selected to be the new city manager for Menlo Park, Starla Jerome-Robinson. Jerome-Robinson comes on board while the […]
May 30, 1934 – February 11, 2019 Barbara Jean Pavkovich (nee Luebke) died peacefully at home on February 11, 2019 of congestive heart failure. She was surrounded by her family […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos Planning Commission Chair Alex Samek has attended just one meeting since he was arrested zooming down Highway 101 while allegedly passed […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Caltrans officials are planning to partially reopen a 2-1/2 mile stretch of Skyline Boulevard by the end of the month, after a “surprise” […]
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Small cell nodes, attachments to utility poles or light poles aimed at improving wireless service, are going to be popping up in more places […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Of the seven members of Palo Alto City Council, no one seems to attract quite as much Twitter backlash as the slow-growth Councilwoman […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View-based El Camino Hospital is expanding its reach to southern Santa Clara County with the purchase of five clinics in San Jose, Morgan Hill and […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Three incidents of sexual assault or attempted sexual assault were reported at Stanford on Friday and Saturday (Feb. 15-16), according to police. One […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Redwood City Council wants a developer to make changes to the office project proposed at the former Malibu Grand Prix site, including possibly […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Four of the seven members of Mountain View City Council want to roll back an ordinance allowing four marijuana businesses, which led to […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Mark Goodman wept with relief after convincing the Los Altos City Council to drop the idea of installing stop signs with constantly flashing […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The renovated Cubberley Community Center could one day be home to an amphitheater, a health and wellness center, two gyms on top of […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Twenty-four percent of local renters and 15% of mortgage holders spend more than half their gross income on housing, according to a new […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto Police Chief Bob Jonsen has launched a new Chief’s Advisory Group of 30 residents who will have the chief’s ear in […]
UPDATE, Feb. 15 — A Stanford graduate student who died by suicide in an engineering lab has been identified by the Santa Clara County medical examiner’s office as Ziwen “Jerry” […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Police at Stanford have received a report of a woman being sexually assaulted on campus by three men, a spokesman for the department […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The building that used to house the Oasis burger joint has a new owner who is willing to enter into a lease with […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Menlo Park City Council appeared last night (Feb. 12) to be divided over a proposal some have labeled as rent control. The […]
A San Mateo County Sheriff’s deputy has been charged with using excessive force on inmates, including slamming one inmate’s head into a closed elevator door, a prosecutor said today (Feb. […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A Redwood City councilwoman and some former Ampex employees are working to memorialize the videotape machine company, and perhaps find a new home […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A Gunn High School student who was booted off the robotics team after taunting his ex-girlfriend about her sexual performance at school has […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto police are refusing to release five years of public records related to police use of force, including the fatal police […]
By the Daily Post staff The San Mateo County Medical Center has been dismissed from a lawsuit alleging that an ultrasound technician at the hospital raped her. The rape allegedly […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Atherton police yesterday announced (Feb. 14) that they had made two arrests, just two weeks after residents harangued police for not making any […]
By the Daily Post staff Here’s a look at the history of high-speed rail in California and the Peninsula. 1996 — The state Legislature establishes the California High-Speed Rail Authority […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Gov. Gavin Newsom yesterday (Feb. 12) pulled the plug on plans to send a $77 billion high-speed rail down the Peninsula — but […]
The Palo Alto Police Department has brought Community Service Officers, or CSOs, who patrol the streets in police cars, back to its team after the positions were dropped during budget cuts more […]
Two men have been arrested in connection with a carjacking earlier this month that left a teenager with a gunshot wound to his leg, Mountain View police said today (Feb. […]
Richard Reeder passed away peacefully at home on January 29, 2019 after a brief battle with cancer. Richard graduated from Palo Alto High School and the University of Oregon. After […]
July 6, 1919 – February 7, 2019 Frank, Dad, Grandpa, Uncle Frank, “Big Uncle Frank,” died February 7, 2019, surrounded by family at his home in Palo Alto, CA. He […]
Pick up tomorrow’s Post for local reaction to this story. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced today (Feb. 12) he’s abandoning a plan to build a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A controversial ordinance that critics have called rent control in disguise will go to Menlo Park City Council tonight (Feb. 12). The ordinance […]
By the Daily Post staff In an unexpected move, Palo Alto City Council tonight (Feb. 110 put the brakes on building a $29 million, 324-space parking garage at Hamilton Avenue […]
By the Daily Post staff Santa Clara County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a man suspected of spreading white powder and hydrogen peroxide on a VTA bus and tampering with food […]
Links to the videos below BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer As years of tension over Castilleja School’s plan to expand its Palo Alto campus continue to simmer, disgruntled […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The company that operates Stanford Shopping Center is seeking to tear down the Macy’s Men’s store to make room for a three-story Restoration […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Local car burglaries have spiked this winter, with more than 100 break-ins reported per month in Mountain View in December and January. Palo […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A sexual assault between two nursing home residents — which prosecutors say can be one of the more difficult kinds of sex crimes […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer After disappearing from the public eye for just under a year, Facebook today (Feb. 8) submitted new plans to Menlo Park for its […]
By the Daily Post staff Former KGO 810 radio talk show host Brian Copeland has filed a scathing lawsuit over his firing last year, claiming race and age discrimination. The […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The retired Redwood City police officer who was in a standoff with police for 17-and-a-half hours was sentenced Friday (Feb. 8) to only […]
This story was originally published Jan. 22 in the Daily Post. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District has quietly made plans to spend […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer “Minority Report” — the dystopian film that imagined police using psychic technology to arrest and convict murderers before they’d committed a crime — […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Someone made a sweet score at Safeway, stealing $1,700 worth of candy from the Woodside Road grocery store in Redwood City. Around 10 […]
By the Associated Press Stanford has started a review of interactions that some faculty members had with He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who claims to have helped make gene-edited babies. […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto school district is asking a judge to turn down a Gunn High School student’s request to permanently remove a boy […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer One of the nation’s largest housing developers, Greystar, is proposing to build 483 apartments and condos in Menlo Park’s east side, which would […]
From staff and wire reports Five months after Palo Alto professor Christine Blasey Ford testified that she was sexually assaulted by then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a visiting professor at […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The new owners of the Hotel President in downtown Palo Alto have filed an application to turn the 75-unit apartment building into a […]
By the Daily Post staff A 17-year-old boy was shot in the calf while walking his dog on East O’Keefe Street near Menalto Avenue last night (Feb. 5), police said […]
This story was originally published Jan. 31 in the Daily Post. BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Authorities yesterday (Jan. 30) shed more light on why the man who […]
Roger Allan Skarston passed away peacefully on January 11, 2019 at his home in Palo Alto, California. He had his loving family and caregivers by his side. At the time […]
By the Daily Post staff A Palo Alto police officer watched a man break into a car in a downtown parking garage, but before the officer was able to make […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District is standing by its decision not to widely publicize the $50 million purchase and planned renovation of […]
About 1,700 union members who work for San Mateo County are planning a two-day strike Feb. 13 and 14 against health care cuts and what they say are unfair wages. […]
This story was originally printed in the Post on Jan. 24. BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The attorney who sued the Dutch Goose in west Menlo Park and […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council last night (Feb. 4) decided to ask Stanford for $82.4 million for affordable housing along with funds for the […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A 72-year-old La Honda man has been identified as the person who was found in a submerged vehicle in a creek south sear […]
By the Daily Post staff Police are looking for a bank robber who used a note to hold up the Wells Fargo at 505 California Avenue this evening. The man […]
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post correspondent The city of Palo Alto may seek $82 million in affordable housing funds from Stanford, along with money for bridges to separate the Caltrain […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer More than $500,000 has been raised between the four Democrats running to replace Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, in the state Senate, but […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Seven years ago, 68% of Palo Altans said their city was a good place to retire — but a new survey shows that […]
By the Daily Post staff Atherton police, who were on patrol for home burglars early this morning (Feb. 2), arrested a Modesto man who was in possession of a loaded […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The parents of a Gunn High School student have gone to court to ask that a boy who allegedly sexually assaulted their daughter […]
Editor’s note: This story has been clarified to explain how some homeless people get free passes to ride the bus. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer VTA is considering […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The last handful of tenants remaining in the Hotel President apartments expect to be evicted from their Palo Alto homes soon, but it’s […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer In a town where residents have their alarm system hooked up to the police station, Athertonians last night (Jan. 31) conveyed how terrified […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A fight between two teenagers in front of the Century Theaters in downtown Redwood City ended up with one of the teens getting […]
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